- Understand the scientific principles governing core losses in laminations. (Particularly as it relates to high frequency and non-sinusoidal excitation).
- Develop an instrument capable of accurately measuring the core losses of motor laminations exposed to non-sinusoidal and/or high frequency excitations.
- Measure core losses of laminations when exposed to high frequency sinusoidal and non-sinusoidal waveforms.
- Develop design formulae for categorizing core losses as a function of frequency, lamination thickness, resistivity, peak flux density and wave shape.
- Encapsulate the important findings and results in a final report.
- Apply these design formulae to several prototype and the measure the improvements in efficiency.
